The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1934, Page 1

«IN SOUTH DAKOTA PRISON! North Dakota’s 4 Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘The Weather [ rata neh Se Ie ESTABLISHED 1873 Extradite Kidnaper Sankey to South Dakota | Dillinger Glad <PUBLIGENEMY NO.1.- FACES PROSECUTION INBOETTOHER CASE Temporarily Escapes Charge of Participation in Lind- bergh Kidnaping Private Railroad Car Is Used; Mrs. Sankey Is Held at Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. 3—(7}— “America’s Public Enemy No. 1,” Verne Sankey, confessed kidnaper, rested in the South Dakota state pen- itentiary here Friday, locked behind bars until he answers abduction charges which may bring him a life sentence tn prison. Brought here from Chicago, where he was arrested Wednesday, Sankey, confessed kidnaper of Charles Boett- | cher II, wealthy Denver broker, and Horkell’ Bohn, St. Paul, was hurried | to the county jail from the train and then removed to the penitentiary a short time later for safe keeping. Just when the notorious kidnaper, sought since last February, will face eourt proceedings on the charge of amucting Boettcher was problemati- cal EE. D. Barron, assistant federal district attorney, said he expected to leern Sankey’s desires Friday after- noon. A plea of guilty, federal officials said, would result in the prisoner be- ing brought before Judge A. Lee Wy- man immediately, while if he decides to stand trial, a special grand jury and court term will be called. Present plans call for his trial at Pierre, but he may petition for a change to the Sioux Falls division, a move which would be sanctioned by the district attorney's office. Nab Gordon Alcorn Ten government agents surrounded a house in Chicago Thursday night aad nabbed Gordon Francis Alcorn, Inst of the kidnapers of Charles Beettcher, II, of Denver. He was found in bed, made no re- sistance, and the department of jus- xice men said he confessed readily. His capture was effected just five hours after Sankey had been hurried aboard a train for Sioux Falls. Alcorn’s bride of less than a year, the former Birdie Angeline Christo- pherson, was arrested with him. Hours of questioning by federal agents of the stocky little former South Dakota ranchman, apparently failed to link him with the fatal Lind- bergh abduction, and he was hurried- ly started by train Thursday night for Sioux Falls. Sankey, who the authorities said deserted the drab life of a ranchman to take the more lucrative racket of a “big time” kidnaper, apparently had no objection to going to South Dako- ta, for he waived extradition, and was quickly on his way, carefully guanded by five department of justice agents, led by Melvin Purvis, chief of the de- Ppartment’s Chicago office. Private Cars Used A private car for the notorious bad man and his guards was used. Sankey, who confessed, Purvis said, to the $60,000 Boettcher kidnaping as well as the $12,000 abduction of Haskell Bohn of St. Paul, faced the prospect of receiving a life term, if he is con- victed, and there were indications that the authorities were hopeful that he would be. “The chances for conviction in the | “and the case was dismissed. A Boettcher case are better in South Da- kota” United States District Attorney Dwight H. Green said, after Sankey had been taken to the court room of Federal Judge John P. Barnes where bi eee Papers were signed. F. Kinkead, prosecuting attorney of 8 St. Paul said he was very much dis- appointed in Sankey's swift transfer to South Dakota. He had been hope- ful that Minnesota could try him for the Bohn abduction. “I think,” he said, “that we should have been given a chance to try Sankey in St. Paul. If by chance he escapes punishment on the federal charge, we will be ready and waiting to try him on our charge.” Women In berraeng Sankey's com- tioning. District Attorney Green said that it was probable that Sankey would be tried, with his wife, Fern, at the next term of court. ie bas bene trae until the $60,000 was paid. ADMITS aru GUILT BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934 Name Burleigh Corn-Hog Group | Finds She'd Wed ‘Enoch Arden’ Reappearance of her “dead” husband, J. Z. Robertson, halted the suit of Mra. Nora Demaree, above, in Oklahoma City, for bis $5000 war risk insurance. She remarried after she believed him dead in the World War, but he returned as “J. W. Maxwell,” federal inquiry may follow. JURY DEADLOCKED — IN DELIBERATIONS OVER TOUHY CASE New Deck for Jury Deadlocked! Judge Michael Feinberg Enter- tains Hope That Verdict Criminal Courts Building, Chicago, Feb. 2—(#)—The jurors trying Roger Touhy and two others for the kid- naping of John Factor were called before Judge Michael Feinberg Friday afternoon and told him they had been unable yet to agree upon the guilt or innocence of any of the three defend- ants, The jury had been deliberating since 7:30 o'clock Thursday night. Un- official reports were that the jurors stood 10-to-2 for conviction. ‘EFFECT OF DOLLAR DEVALUATION MOVE NOT SATISFACTORY European Results Might Deter- mine Future of Roosevelt’s Money Move FRENCH MAY BLOCK PLAN Currency War Between Wash- ington and London Would Be Costly to Both ‘Washington, Feb. 2.—(#)—A series of private money talks with Great Britain were indicated authoritatively Friday to be either under way or shout to begin, as officials here in- vestigated actions in London and Paris to determine their own course. In the intricate web of European gcvernmenta! high finance authorities saw possibilities that might determine the future of President Roosevelt's dollar program. Reactions abroad ‘Thursday to the 40.96 per cent deval- uation and the new high for gold were not renee highly satisfac- ore gold policy could be hampered by & French embargo on gold, which would eliminate this heavy source of the world market supply and simul- taneously act against the effect of America’s fixed $35 an ounce price. Although some here ted 8) heavy flow of gold into the United | ‘States because of the profit inherent | in foreign gold prices considerably | below this country's $35, the belief | nevertheless was current in authori-| tative quarters that if France should | g? off the gold standard it would be ‘>ecause of British rather than Amer- ican activity. Another alternative viewed possible here would be for Great Britain to wield her huge equalization fund in the dollar market, Such action might mean a currency war between Washington and London which Secretary Morgenthau asserts ‘would be costly to both countries. Of- ficials nevertheless predicted early use of this nation’s $2,000,000,000 fund. Domestically, the administration was watching for commodity price re- ‘s?onse to the 59.06 per cent dollar and what Morgenthau called a “1934 model gold bullion standard.” Judge Feinberg ordered the jurors to retire and resume their discussion. “The court still entertains the hope that you will agree,” he said. Deputy United States Marshal Ben Goldberg of Chicago waited in the courtroom of Judge Michael Feinberg until after the jury was ordered locked ul for the night early Friday morning. He had warrants for two of the de- fendants, Gustav Schaefer and Albert Kator, charging them with a Minne- apolis mail robbery. In event of the acquittal of the Principal defendant, Roger Touhy, it was reported that the state of Wis- consin roe. rondly $0 Dees RiShares of carrying concealed weapons aga! him, if was in Wisconsin that Touhy retail and the others were arrested a few months ago after an automobile mis- hap. ta the case of Factor, Franklin Lag Overmyer, counsel for the British gov- ernment, said he would ask Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan Friday to issue a warrant for Factor’s arrest for extradition to England to answer a prior Friday, Judge Feinberg ordered the Jurors locked up for the night. Nonpartisan League Executive ve Body Here ‘The three members of the Nonpart- isan League state executive commit- tee ieee ere Teeny 00. 1x. Ataee for nitions. ‘Members of the committee, compos- ed of John Nystul, Fargo, E. G. Lar- son, Valley City, and C. N. Lee, Bis- marck, plan to set the dates before ad- Journing their meeting Friday. Before the committee was a de- mand of numerous county chairmen that Precinct meetings be Feb. 17, the county meetings Feb. 47, and the state convention Mi convention March 6. Athletic Board Will Meet in Fargo Feb. 10 ak Although the devaluation move bounced stock market prices up- ward Thursday, commodity prices did Httle or nothing. Increase in Retail Sales Is Reported New York, Feb. 2—(7)}—Improve- ment in retail sales was an outstand- ing feature of trade and business trends in January, which revealed “a definite rdjival in all branches,” Dun and Bradstreet said in their weekly trade review Friday. In many sections, said the agency, business reached the largest to- tals for any January since 1929, with velume “distributed more evenly to all departments, fined to those were in “The semi-stabilization of the dol- lar,” continued the review, “has al- where clearance events ” of last year's.” Linton Blacksmith Is in Burleigh Jail at the preliminary County Warrants Are ‘Called for Payment Burleigh county warrants up to and including No. 800 were called for pay- ment Thursday, Feb. 1, by County ‘This means instead of being con- | Poll Son Is Unhurt Button Game Is CWA APPROPRIATION | OF $450,000,000 18 COMMITTEE'S URGE rene Pegren Program Will Last! Through May, Adminis- trator Hopkins Says ‘Washington, Feb. 2—(7)—An im- Mediate appropriation of $45,000,000 to carry on the civil works program and its 4,000,000 employees and $500,- 000,000 for direct relief was recom- mended to the house Friday by its appropriations committee. ‘The committee released an account by Harry L. Hopkins, CWA and re- |ief administrator, that even with the civil works request $100,000,000 higher than originally intended, it was im- Probable the CWA program would last wh May. Hopkins told the committee that un- {less immediate action was taken the $400,000,000 originally allotted for the CWA would be exhausted Feb. 9 and there would be no funds for that huge “Thank God, he was not killed,’ said John Dillinger, Sr., above, as news was brought to him at Mooresville, Ind., that his bandit son, John, Jr. had been cap- tured in Tucson, Ariz. The father bad lived in fear for months that the outlaw would fight to the death rather than surrender. COUNTRY SWEPT BY = BANK HOLDUP WAVE One Policeman Killed as Four’ Robberies Net Raiders Nearly $200,000 Pennsgrove, N. J., Feb. 2.—(?)—Four | men stole $130,000 from two bank employes Friday as they were enter- ing the Pennsgrove National bank with the money in three packages and a mail bag. Tho cash was to be wed to meet the demands .of the employes of E. I. Dupont De Nemours and Company, | which pays its men by check. ‘The bank gong and fire siren were sounded and within five minutes 50 automobiles carrying residents of the town and vicinity started in search of the robbers. No trace of the car could be found. POLICEMAN SLAIN AS ROBBERS GET $14,500 Needham, Mass., Feb. 2.—(?)—One iceman was slain, three other men shot and $14,500 taken from the Needham Trust Co. Friday by four bandits, two of them armed with what bank employes described as sub- machine guns. Forbes McLeod, policeman shot through the stomach as he answered the bank's burglar alarm, died short- ly afterward in the Glover hospital. TEXAS BANK YIELDS $23,000 TO $24,000 Coleman, Tex., Feb. 2—(7)—A gang of heavily-armed men waylaid six employes of the First Coleman Na- tional Bank as they appeared for work Friday, waited for the timelock to open the vault and fled with be- tween $23,000 and $24,000. They took along all of the em- ployes. Five of them jumped off the running board of the robbers’ auto- | % mobile two blocks away. The sixth, C. W. Woodruff, assistant cashier, was released nine miles east of Cole- man, GET OVER $10,000 IN ROCHESTER RAID Rochester, N. Y¥., Feb. 2.—()—Four men Friday held up the Union Trust Co. branch bank at Culver and Mer- chant Roads and escaped with be- tween $10,000 and $15,000. Barnes Nonpartisans To Support Thoresen Valley City, N. D., Feb. 2—()}—Or- ganization of a Barnes county “Thore- gen for Governor” club has been per- fected here to promote the candidacy of T. H. Thoresen, Grand Forks, an announced candidate for the Non- pattisan League nomination for gov- ernor. State Senator John L. Miklethun, Valley City, 1s president of the club, Sam Oglesby, Leal, vice president; 8. ransom, Jan, 17, | payroll. | The present rate of expenditure he said, was about $70,000,000 a week. In its formal report, the appropria- tions committee admonished the house | to remember “that these relief meas- |Ures are not ® permanent policy of jthe federal government,” and added: | “They are temporary and only the extreme emergency justifies them .. Relief Lists Reduced ‘The administrator testified as head jor the federal relief organization that last March there were 4,560,000 fam- ilies in the U. 8. on public relief rolls representing “something over 20,000,000 people, or one person out of every six.” ‘The number of families on the fed- eral relief rolls in December, he said, had decreased to 2,650,000. | “We might extend civil works a little longer,” Hopkins said. “My own {thought would be, however, with a ‘fund of this size, you could not pos- ly keep this running all the time between now and next winter; that you would either diminish it sharply |curing the summer time or demobilize it entirely during the summer time.” i Hopkins said that many people who needed relief had been ashamed to ask for it until the CWA was created last |November by President Roosevelt. Mentions Difficulties {| He made only brief mention before ithe committee of the difficulties en- countered in administering the huge civil works program and touched light- ly on the avalanche of letters that reached CWA headquarters following drastic reductions of hours and jobs in order to make funds last as long as possible. of changes of political in- terference and graft, in some cases of which prosecution has been ordered, he said, the number of persons “who have been implicated in graft is very small, although it looms very large in the public’s mind.” Saying he did not think the federal government “should be encouraged to stay in the relief picture forever,” Hopkins added: “We have done nothing and will do nothing to encourage the set-up of a Permanent relief machinery of this kind in the United States.” “It is impossible,” he said, “for me to tell you how many families are go- ing to be on relief next July, August or September, or next October or November. I do not know. “I think that we can, on a minimum basis, conclude we are going to have an average of close to 3,000,000 families on the relief rolls during the coming year.” a | Believe It or Not, | Butterfly Is Here en See Bi which is something for were employed removing Ripley's “Believe It or Not,” car- ot radio Ms co bad iv. to @ depth of 10 inches Mrs. . esperman ti Avenue B, west, is authority for ena wl be much cider in the story that a butterfly startled weather predictions. pot her breakfast pe with a. Ai the enaray displayed tn mide Stthe Mill Selects summer, any 2 isin: Ag ing Thomasses to visit her home dvertising ency and view the specimen themselves. Grand Forks, N. D, Feb. 3? ‘The Narman-McGinnis Bremer Kidnapers of St, Paul has been selected Silent 17th Day|*, St. Paul, Feb. 2- 2.—(®)—Kidnapers maintained their silence for the 17th consecutive day as the Adolph Bremer funy eevee sree ware the gang which seized Edward G. Bremer, wealthy banker, for $200,000 Stopped in Court | RULES MUST BE ‘OBSERVED, Facts Withheld in Suit by Cripple Button, button. | button? A game of this ancient indoor pas- | time was started Thursday in Bur- |}etgh county district court with one | crippled boy, four lawyers, a governor and a farmer-politician as the play- ers. A district judge was the referee. But the players interested couldn't agree on the rules and the judge fenton, the game before it really got | started. | ee “governor, the farmer-politi- dan and three of the lawyers didn’t want to play anyhow, claiming that the fourth lawyer hadn't complied with all the requirements before try- {ing to get the game started. The result was that the suit of James Buckley, a crippled boy, against Governor William Langer, C. D. King and an insurance company, in which he sought to collect $3,100 alleged to be due him, was thrown out of court by Judge C. W. Buttz, Devils Lake, before a word of evidence was of- fered. AS & result, the jury and the public ‘was denied opportunity to judge the facts in a case which has created wide comment. Three Joined as Defendants Buckley, the plaintiff, claimed one or all of the three defendants owed him $3,100 to complete settlement on an insurance policy, of which he was the beneficiary. He and his lawyer, F. E. McCurdy, didn’t know which one had the button so all three were Joined in a suit to recover the money. After some fuss Wednesday and Thursday, a jury was selected to hear the case and Attorney McCurdy made his opening statement to the jury, in which he promised to show that one or more of the defendants had the| $3,100 button and that Buckley was | entitled to it. Then he called King to the stand) for cross-examination and the legal| *|fireworks began, All of the defendants joined in a motion that King be barred from giv- ing testimony against anyone, in-| cluding himself, on the ground that! McCurdy’s complaint had not set up! his cause of action, if he had one, in the proper manner. The matter was argued for two hours and finally Judge Buttz decided that those who didn’t want to play were right in their contention, In his opening statement to the jury, McCurdy promised to prove that his | client had been gyped and to show | how it was done but this was not| evidence and none was offered on any | point. King, the only witness called. sat in the witness chair while the argu-/ ment raged over the rules, but was not | permitted to say a word, except “I do” | when he swore to tell the truth. (Continued on Page 2) Who's got the Ce See * Ground Hog Spies || | His Shadow Here | —_——____—________¢) Ground hogs had no trouble in seeing their shadows in western North Dakota Friday as the sun sone brightly early in the morn- wh the old superstition that sun- shine Feb. 2 brought the ground- hog out of his den for a look around means anything, Bismarck ffi for. six weeks more of win- The ground hog superstition seems to be purely an American one, but there is a much more an- cient one in Europe to the effect that if “Candlemas Day is fair and clear, there will be two winters in one year.” Reports from Chicago indicate that if any stray ground hogs were out shadow hunting in that district they were doomed to dis- appointment as dawn broke under leaden skies and the weather re- port indicated the clouds would in- crease, At Seattle the ground hog was not able to see his shadow Fri- day, an Indian legend says, be- cause he’s afraid the terrible thunderbird will throw rocks at shim. Seattle reports the warm- ‘est Feb. 2 in the history of the mesther bureau, Portland, Ore., has the warmest day since 187i and Vancouver, B. C., reports the warmest ground hog day in 45 years—and it's all perfectly. simple, northwest and Alaska Indians say, because the totem poles have been explaining it for years. In New York city 30,000 pockars ager. For the time being the agency has been instructed to prepare MeCulloch said, and none of Placed until an advertising |total around $2,500. | will be in the neighborhood of $2,500.” N: amed as NRA Board Chief Named head of the women's division of the NRA consumers’ advisory board, Mrs. Pattie Ruff- ner Jacobs of Birmingham, Ala., is shown here at her desk in Washington. She succeeds Miss Mary Hughes. WENZEL PROTESTS PAYING FOR OUSTER FROM W. C. B. FUND PRICE FIVE CENTS SET-UP SIMILAR 10 THAT FOR WHEAT 70 BE ARRANGED SOON | Township Committees Will Be Named by County-Wide Body in Near Future AGENT ANNOUNCES DETAILS Evidence on Last Year's Hog and Corn Production Needed, Putnam Says Members of the Burleigh county corn-hog allotment committee were announced Friday by County Exten- sion Agent H. O. Putnam. The committee, which is appointed through the extension division of the agricultural college at Fargo, includes Oscar Erickson, Wilton; Alfred Arne- son, Arena; Milan Ward, Bismarck; Paul Schonert, Moffit; Charles An- derson, Moffit; Paul Holmes, Meno- ken; Tyler Johnson, Sterling; Wil- liam Josephson, Wing; William Ros- vold, Driscoll; Alex Asbridge, Bis- marck; and William Uhde, Regan. The county corn-hog group will meet soon to select the township com- mittees. Committeemen of both the county and the townships serve without compensation. Circulars explaining the allotment have been sent to members of the county committee, Putnam said. Ac~ companying the circulars are ques- tionnaires and maps which are to be given to every Burleigh county farmer ; Who will take advantage of the allot- ment. These maps, as with the wheat allotment maps, will be filled in by the individual producers and will show a plot of the farms with the fields given to corn cultivation indicated. Also with the circulars are sale statements. According to Putnam the sale slips must accompany the sale Deposed Commissioner ‘Reliably)| ings Informed’ Expenditures Total $2,500 R. E. Wenzel, removed recently by |Governor William Langer as a mem-' ber of the North Dakota workmen’s| compensation bureau, has filed a pro- test with the bureau against the use of the department's funds for pay- ment of expenses incident to the, ouster proceedings. Wenzel said he is reliably informed the expenditures In his letter, Wenzel stated that he claims to be the legally-appointed| commissioner representing employers on the compensation bureau. Appeals have been taken by Wen- zel from Langer’s removal order, and from a decision of Judge C. W. Buttz holding that the governor has power to remove a compensation bureau commissioner following a hearing. Wenzel claims the governor is with- out authority to remove him. His letter addressed to R. H. Walk- er, chairman, and the other members of the bureau said: “This is to notify you and each of} you that I claim to be the legally- appointed commissioner representing employers upon the workmen's com-; pensation bureau, duly qualified, able, willing and entitled to act as such and entitled to all the rights, duties | and emoluments of said office. “You, and each of you, are hereby further notified that I protest against the use of any of the funds and/ moneys of said workmen's compensa- tion fund for the payment of any and all expenses incident to the recent unjustified, unnecessary and illegal ouster proceedings against me; and that I shall hold each commissioner Personally responsible, and also upon his bond, for any payments made in connection therewith out of such; fund. The total amount of such ex-/ Penditures, I am reliably informed, THREE MANIACS ARE SOUGHT IN MISSOURI Criminally-Insane Escape From|. Department of Justice's Medical Center Springfield, Mo., Feb. 2—(P)}—Three of four insane convicts who escaped from the United States department of justice medical center here, still were at large Friday. City homes and cabins and farm houses in this Ozarks countiy were barred against possible entrance of the three, one a life-termer. George John Standish, one of the statements when application for con- jtracts is made at the district meet- | ntevidence ones ere ee {will be even more necessary than {i was with the wheat allotment,” the ‘county agent said. “Anyone who had 10 acres or more of corn and who raised four hogs or more last season can sign up for the allotment. According to my under- standing it is not necessary to raise hogs or to plant corn this year to get the federal bonus. sessors’ lists this week to determine Burleigh county farmers who last year turned in breed-sow and corn acreage figures. “Farmers must guarantee a decrease in their corn production of 20 per cent and hog raising 25 per cent to get the United States aid.” After applications are signed, final county organizations, of the same na- ture as the wheat committees, will be set up, Putnam announced. Grasshopper Battle Measure Is Passed Washington, Feb. 2.—(?)—Repre- sentative Lemke (Rep., N. D.), said Friday the appropriations committee of the house had approved an appro- priation of $2,300,000 for grasshopper eradication in middle and northwest states, Lemke said he understood the ap- propriation had the endorsement of |the White House and Director of the Budget Douglas. He said the committee had not de- cided whether the sum would be in- cluded in the first deficiency bill or ‘whether the house would be asked to act immediately upon his resolution calling for an appropriation of §2,- 254,983. The money will be spent to spread roison bait in hatching regions in‘ lthe spring, frovided the appropriation received the approval of both houses ond is Peg Ry tee, president. le states which grasshoppers have inflicted the most damage in | recent years are North and South Da- kota, Montana, , Minnesota, Idaho, ‘Wyoming and Nebraska. Loses Control of Ax And Chops Thumb Off || Matt Barth, son of Mr. and Mrs. quartet which used a hacksaw blade and a volleyball net to gain freedom, for counterfeiting. | Joseph G. Watts, 25, serving 10 years robbery from Fort Sam set up. He declined s